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Mario Apata

@marioapata.bsky.social

PhD candidate at Arizona State University specializing in ancient genomics, human population history, oral microbiomes, and genetic adaptation to arsenic. Swimmer and oil painting artist.

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Anne Stone @acstone.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Congrats to former Stone lab grad student @marioapata.bsky.social who won the AAAG postdoc presentation prize at the @bioanth.org meetings in Denver last week! #AABA2026

Mario Apata and Anne Stone at the AABA meetings in Denver.

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Anne Stone @acstone.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Great talk by my former PhD student @marioapata.bsky.social at the #AABA2026 meeting!

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Anne Stone @acstone.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Today @marioapata.bsky.social successfully defended his dissertation! (Co-chairs @sexchrlab.bsky.social and me). Mario's science is complemented by his beautiful illustrations (which I poorly tried to imitate in icing form for the cake!). Congratulations Dr. Apata!!!

Anne Stone and Mario Apata smiling and admiring his cake (which features DNA, teeth, cell culture and an Andean woman in icing form to reflect his dissertation on Ancient DNA and the microbiome in communities from Northern Chile along with functional analyses of regulatory mutations influencing arsenic tolerance in these people.

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Melissa Wilson @sexchrlab.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Congratulations Dr. Mario Apata @marioapata.bsky.social! Dr. Apata successfully defended his dissertation today on work w/ ancient DNA, the microbiome, and functional genomics of arsenic tolerance, co-advised by Dr. Anne Stone @acstone.bsky.social and myself, collaborating w/ Dr. Jeanne Wilson-Rawls

Mario presenting a snapshot of his research to the Center for Evolution and Medicine.

Mario and me standing together, smiling, at the SMBE conference in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.

A lab lunch with current and former lab members at Engrained Cafe at Arizona State University.

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